Terrorism

[allonzee@lemmy.world]

Yep.

This and virtually all countries were founded by people who would fit the definition of terrorism.

How history remembers you is solely on the basis of how successful your "terrorism" was.

George Washington is a very well regarded terrorist.

[sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The point is that terrorism is only applied when it’s convenient for the ruling class. Hate crime murders are similarly politically motivated but don’t get the terrorism label.

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

Doesn't it just mean political violence?

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

accurate

[captpretentious@lemmy.world]

Saying "legally" isn't much of an argument, IMO, not to imply you meant it as one. What's legal or illegal is arbitrarily decided on by those in power, and arbitrarily enforced. The vast majority of these laws were not voted on by us and they're rarely if ever reviewed.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

Terrorism?

No.

Terrorism is the targeting of uninvolved civilians to spread fear for political purposes among the population at large. It can get a bit blurry but I'm not afraid of being assassinated for denying healthcare.

Are you?

Now if we want to talk about how carpet or drone bombing campaigns are terrorism that's an interesting conversation but the system is just doing what's it's designed to do, protect the oligarchy no matter what.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

Finally we have an answer

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

History is written by victors, not terrorists

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

And Luigi isn't a man or patriarchy is over. Or maybe there are more than one system of oppression active at the same time and intertwined. We will never know.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

jesus christ imagine his skeleton

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

no his arms have TWO ELBOWS EACH and his finger bones are doubled with claws inside the flesh of his hands so he can quickly regenerate in case of traumatic injury he's a monster

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I don't consider him a terrorist because I don't consider what he did as a political action.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

He was wealthy enough to have no problems paying for all of his surgeries without insurance, tbh. His dad is head of Mangione Enterprise which owns and operates a lot of real estate including large resorts.

He had a Bachelors in Engineering and a Masters in Computer Science.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I think Luigi might have had no intention of advocating healthcare reform, he just wanted to disincentivize people he viewed as evil.

[n0clue@lemmy.world]

[marcos@lemmy.world]

He is a sponge. He has either no skeleton, or that weird soft one where no piece links to each other.

[thereturnofpeb@reddthat.com]

Italians, like the people that populate Italy, don't think of themselves as white. They see themselves as Italian.

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

It amuses me that the media has no idea how to spin Luigi into the villain of this story.

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

Ah, good find! Although his buff form anatomy is so different from the norm it doesn't answer any questions.

[synae@lemmy.sdf.org]

How's that? It seems very political to me

Unless we're doing a "I didn't see nothin" bit, that's cool too